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Dell Founder Dropped $100M Onto Red Hat

Posted by Hemos on from the what's-going-on-there dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Via google news, I found a article at MSNBC claiming that Michael Dell, Dell's founder and chairman, has droped $100M into Red Hat (Michael himself, not his company). Analyists say that "Dell - neither the person nor the company - is interested in acquiring Red Hat", but one wonders what's behind of this move. A fight against their competence in the server market?"

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  1. Dell UNIX by mrbill1234 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Once upon a time, Dell had their own SVR4 UNIX Distro. Perhaps Mr Dell has a passion for OS's.

  2. Re:Dell sucks until they offer an AMD by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, that was right around the time when Sun was getting in big trouble for cutting corners. They pretty much lost EBay because of it. Sun lost a lot of consumer trust during that period.

    These days I wouldn't buy from them, just because their financial situation is so bleak that there's no reason to believe that they'll still be in business in 1-2 years.

    1. They have 7 billion in the bank, and they're more or less breaking even. That's not *that* bleak.

    2. You have the hardware. It's a standard box with PC hardware. Who cares about whether Sun will be there or not?

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